Costa Rica Fishing Report from FishingNosara
Costa Rica Fishing Report Archive | FishingNosara
The Harvester delivered big Sailfish action on June 18 on a full day offshore adventure.
Mate Kevin performed brilliantly to safely bill and release these monsters unharmed.
Right at the end of the day, they wetted a line inshore an snagged this tasty Queen Snapper for the dinner table…nice way to end the day!
June 14, 2016 marks the first time in the seven year history of the FishingNosara team that Marlin releases were scored by every team boat.
Photos and full reports coming soon!
Wanderer
Client: Tallahassee Offshore Mafia
1 Blue Marlin 300 lbs
2 Sailfish
Discoverer
Client: Robbie Parks
1 Blue Marlin 400 lbs
Explorer
Client: Al Bourgeoisie, Robert Thomason
1 Blue Marlin 300 lbs
1 Sailfish
1 Yellowfin Tuna 25 lbs
Harvester
Client: Tallahassee Offshore Mafia
1 Blue Marlin 300 lbs
Jacksonville anglers Al Bourgeoisie and Robert Thomason had a wildly productive day on June 13 with several Sailfish releases backed up with several big Yellowfin Tunas.
After the high-flying Sailfish show, they followed the spinning dolphin schools and snuck the Tunas out from under their beaks.
Great work by Captain Alex and the mega panga!
Robbie Parks and his family had several sweet Sailfish release with Captain Alex on June 12.
Each of these 100+ lbs. monsters put up big fights and the releases led to big smile.
Great work by the Mega Panga Harvester!
Chuck Harris and his Mob had a big day on June 11, with a Double Sailfish releases leading off the day’s catches.
Nice fish handling by Mate Kevin to ensure the safety of both the fishes and the anglers.
The Sailfish strikes stayed strong all day, and Chuck’s Offshore Mafia had the skills to bring them in quickly.
The final release came from our old buddy Rick Blackburn, and was the seventh release of the day.
The Tallahassee Offshore Mafia hit town on the 10th with capo Don Chuck Harris leading the charge on the Harvester.
This large group booked up all of our boats this week and cut a wide swath through the blue water species.
After a few nice Sailfish releases, they rounded out the day with some tasty plate-sized Yellowfin Tunas.
Great way to start the week for these hard-fishin’ Floridians.
The Harvester scored a nice Sailfish release with young angler Joseph Guzaldo on June 9:
That’s a heck of a fish for such a young angler!
Eric Dixon continues his habit of catching big billfish on spinning tackle. This time he scored twice in one week on the Harvester.
Look at the workout the Dixon boys are giving to our new Shimano Stella spinners; we weren’t sure how these would hold up to such a fight, but it turns out these are just as tough as our Tiagra conventional reels.
Later in the week Eric struck again, this time with the old reliable Penn Slammer.
Great work by this father and son duo of Colorado anglers!
The Harvester welcomed a super-fun group of Texas anglers for the first of three big days of blue water action on June 4.
Tracey Melnar, Jennifer Felchak-Tagliabue, Donna Trubee, Norman Trubee, and Dave Tagliabue stayed inshore on their first day and scored a beautiful Cubera Snapper.
Safe to say they got dinner filets on ice for the week!
Then they added this wonderful Rooster Fish release later in the day.
Great start to a big week of fishing!
Art and Christine Jones got their week of fishing off to a fast start with the Harvester reporting a swarm of sweet Sailfish releases.
Check out the above-the-water action from these fired-up high-flyers:
After the early run of Sailfish releases they hooked into this meaty Dorado estimated to weigh 30lbs.
With dinner taken care of, the Jones crew went back to trophy fish hunting:
Around mid-day they hooked-up a hunting pair of Sailfish. Mate Kevin did an excellent job to coordinate both fights and ensure safe releases.
They followed up with another double hookup, but this time one spit the hook and escaped.
